Christina Aguilera Gets Obscured By ‘Beautiful’ Choir

The Grammy Awards’ official website has an update on Christina Aguilera’s rehearsal for her performance of ‘Beautiful’. They report that the 20-piece string orchestra and a concert choir that accompanied her was so grand that at first the diminutive singer was obscured by her choir. “Am I supposed to be an invisible voice?” she asked the Grammy crew. The answer was a firm “No,” and a few edited stage directions later the choir parted to reveal the singer, looking relaxed and casual in jeans and jacket, with her now-dark hair swept up in a bandanna. The website reports, “Each time through, the singer made great use of her powerful pipes, adding improvised vocal embellishments to the melody. The performance was – perhaps predictably – beautiful.”